Chapter Summaries

Reilo and the laboratory staff defended their facility as Tulip Grand Duke’s forces attacked, while battles raged outside and Prince Chen prepared an escape route. The intruders breached the laboratory’s hall but were split up and drawn into deadly traps.

• Peter Will and Death’s Dance Garrington watched the battle and decided to wait until the engraving was in danger before intervening.
• Desert Knight Morse fought Sword Saint Biang while Extraordinary Scholar Houryin battled the Tree of Truth.
• Lola left to check the Space-Time Altar, and Prince Chen sent Fu Bo with her after trusting Reilo’s defenses.
• An intruder’s purification technique dispelled the laboratory’s dark-mist barrier, revealing Reilo and the other scholars ready to fight.
• Reilo ordered the defenders to scatter, and Kedo and Mu Ya escaped through a concealed floor chute as traps blocked the intruders.
• A shield-and-sword warrior was trapped in a secret room, where runic defenses stopped him from breaking through a door and a powerful bell-like sound overwhelmed him.

Reilo struggled to defend the Solar Energy Laboratory after Conasto and another scholar damaged its reactor, causing a radiation leak that drew M into the crisis. Lola sealed the radiation inside a vial, while Reilo faced M’s anger over the danger he had created.

• Conasto crushed Reilo’s Moon Shadow Wraith and damaged the Sun Energy reactor with his Crystal Skull, triggering radiation warnings and drawing the scholars’ attention to the leak.
• Reilo used Harmless Suggestion to make one Earth Grade Fighter’s Battle Qi consume him, then fled as another Fighter escaped and the laboratory issued a red alert.
• Peter Weir and Garrington fought the Tulip Grand Duke’s forces as the Thunder Phoenix fled the spreading radiation and the battle threatened to destroy the rest of Red Ridge.
• M arrived with a bell toll that incapacitated nearby fighters, and Reilo staged a righteous appeal while blaming the invaders for the reactor damage.
• Reilo admitted the leak could remain contained for several hours, and Lola sealed the radiation Force inside a Small Vial before Reilo sent her to rest.

Prince Chen learned that his father had arranged for his mother’s death, while Reilo grieved the deaths of Wushuang Galie and the suspected betrayal by Shatuo. Reilo returned to Red Ridge with royal funds, destroyed the Shadow Hand Bandit Gang, and left the Ando nobles uneasy about his growing power.

• Prince Chen heard from Corleon that his father had trusted his wisdom, the four grand dukes were safe, and his mother had been forced to her death.
• Bailing mourned Wushuang Galie and blamed Shatuo, while Reilo struggled to believe Shatuo had killed his senior brother and promised to confront him.
• Fu Bo told Reilo that Earl William had been arrested and delivered royal funds for Red Ridge’s reconstruction, along with an order to destroy the Shadow Hand Bandit Gang.
• Reilo led the nobles of Ando in wiping out the Shadow Hand Bandit Gang on Mecca Grassland and ordered rescued captives taken to Red Ridge.
• Viscount Roy and other nobles offered Reilo gold and craftsmen, but Reilo directed them to Xiao Kang and departed on the Thunder Phoenix.

Ten years later, two agents of the Black Death Civilization traveled through the Death Storm, destroying civilizations they judged dangerous. They annihilated the newly formed civilization of the God of the Hunt and continued toward the Night's Veil Blood Demon hive civilization.

• A tiny Flying Device entered an eye of the storm, where two Black Death Civilization creatures examined a world inhabited by elemental-fire believers and judged them harmless.
• The guardian, a Legendary Creature, began gathering its believers’ souls through their prayers and declared itself the God of the Hunt, gaining Law Power and expanding the eye of the storm.
• The Flying Device detected the God of the Hunt’s new power, and its occupants decided to destroy the civilization using a compressed crystal.
• The crystal cracked the eye’s barrier, allowing the Death Storm to overwhelm the world, kill its inhabitants, and leave the weakened God of the Hunt to fall into the vortex.
• The Flying Device continued on and identified its next destination as the Night's Veil Blood Demon hive civilization.

Ten years after the Grand Duchy stabilized, Reilo welcomed the opening of Red Ridge Air Port and learned that the King wanted him to accelerate development of a radiation fission weapon amid a possible Holy See threat. In his hidden laboratory, Reilo continued studying the moon, his Star Body, and divine specimens, and began to suspect that faith power was an unstable substance.

• Reilo graduated nine students from the Red Ridge Alchemy Academy, then attended the opening of Red Ridge Air Port with Lola as Red Ridge became Dubit Province’s fourth city.
• Peter Weir delivered the King’s wishes and told Reilo the Holy See might target the Solar Energy Laboratory; Reilo explained that producing enough Radiant Jinghua for a radiation weapon would take at least three more years.
• After Peter Weir left, Reilo used Yaqian’s space-time research laboratory to travel to his hidden laboratory in Lola’s secret garden.
• Reilo reflected on his research into the moon’s power and his Star Body True Body, then measured the weight loss of a worshipper of the Goddess of Wisdom and a dying werewolf.
• When the werewolf died and the scale reading dropped by about seven grams, Reilo wondered whether faith power and divine power were unstable substances like Radiant Jinghua.

Reilo met with the merchant guilds to expand Radiation Force production without compromising factory safety, offering discounted energy from the laboratory’s reactor. M and Corleon then told Reilo that he would be nominated for the Guardians’ Assembly, where a threat to humanity might be discussed.

• Reilo explained the high costs and strict safety requirements of Radiation Force factories, then rejected proposals to build them outside the principality or sell the reactor’s design.
• Reilo offered the guilds discounted energy from the Solar Energy Laboratory’s upgraded reactor, and Xiao Kang calculated the potential income for the laboratory.
• M told Reilo that the Guardians’ Assembly would take place on Lei Hu Island in three months and that he would nominate him as M’s successor.
• Corleon warned Reilo that the assembly had been called because a High Guardian had discovered a possible threat to humanity, perhaps connected to the Blood-Derived and the war in Death Swamp.
• M and Corleon explained that Reilo would join the Shadow leaders in receiving a mission, which could involve destroying dangerous civilizations in the Death Storm before they became a new Night’s Veil Land.

Reilo accompanied M to a Guardians’ Assembly in the Mesopotamian Plateau, where H revealed a nearby floating island realm inhabited by the Haiqi Civilization. The assembly learned that the Haiqi had powerful female members and vast numbers of ordinary male members, leaving their civilization’s threat unclear.

• Reilo and M crossed the dangerous Mesopotamian Plateau, passing powerful Thunder Elementals and a beast Guardian who greeted M.
• M and Reilo reached the Guardians’ Assembly Hall, where Reilo took a spectator seat as Great Guardians and Dark Web leaders gathered.
• The assembly opened with sixteen Great Guardians present, and a red-haired Guardian invited H to explain the discovery that prompted the meeting.
• H recounted finding and repairing an ancient Gulan Civilization altar, which revealed coordinates to a floating island realm near Starveil Land.
• H identified the inhabitants as the Haiqi Civilization and produced several ordinary male specimens, explaining that their powerful females ranked at least as highly as Dark Web leaders and that the males numbered in the billions.

Reilo accompanied the Guardians on their mission to destroy a little-known civilization beyond the Starveil Land, while learning about their Sky Fortress and the strange species they were targeting. After Corleon’s research suggested the species could evolve without Faith Power, the Guardians prepared to launch a surprise attack on the next full moon.

• The Guardians voted thirteen to three to exterminate the unknown civilization, and M explained that the mission could take months or longer depending on its development.
• Reilo saw the Guardians’ Sky Fortress launch, then joined Corleon to study a Haiqi specimen as the craft traveled southeast.
• Nagas proposed that she and Corleon work together to obtain something during the expedition, and Corleon agreed to consider it if an opportunity arose.
• After the Sky Fortress crossed the Wind Barrier, Corleon reported that the species’ females might accumulate spiritual power through mating, potentially allowing evolution without Faith Power.
• Corleon said the species entered an excited phase on full-moon nights and appeared to need land to mate, so he recommended a surprise attack then.

Corleon led Reilo and the others through the Star Curtain World’s deadly deep sea aboard the Sky Fortress, where they encountered a massive whirlpool and a trench inhabited by a colossal creature. The fortress emerged near a floating island secret realm, and H identified it as the destination marked by the Gulan Fairies’ mysterious coordinates.

• The Sky Fortress descended beneath the waves to escape the Death Storm, then encountered a vast undersea whirlpool that Corleon speculated might have been created by an ancient civilization.
• The fortress escaped the whirlpool and crossed a seemingly endless ocean trench, where Reilo and the others watched glowing fish flee from a behemoth several times larger than the fortress.
• After crossing the trench and traveling through calmer waters, the Sky Fortress surfaced near a vast floating island secret realm hanging within the Star Curtain World’s atmosphere.
• H identified the floating island as the place indicated by the mysterious coordinates left by the Gulan Fairies.

Corleon led Reilo, Alder, and Audrey toward a vast floating-island realm, proposing to accelerate its fall as a way to destroy it. After a grueling ascent through the Star Curtain magnetic field, the four reached the island, where Corleon stayed behind to recover and avoid alerting powerful creatures.

• The Guardians dispersed across the sea to carry out their search while Corleon stayed with Reilo, Alder, and Audrey.
• Corleon proposed forcing the floating island to fall, and the group flew upward to inspect it.
• Reilo activated his miniature Stone Giant true body as the thinning natural energy weakened him and the others.
• Corleon carried Reilo, Alder, and Audrey through the harsh winds and energy blades toward the island’s summit.
• The four reached the island’s desert, and Corleon told the others to explore while he recovered to avoid alerting powerful creatures.

Corleon and the others explored the desert floating-island hidden realm and uncovered evidence of its Gulan past, including a functioning Magic Eye Pyramid energy hub and a living Gulan Fairy. The Moon Song Prayer revealed that the Dark Mother’s mental contamination had doomed the Gulan Fairies and dragged their island into the atmosphere, while the group’s plans remained urgent with the full moon approaching.

• Audrey and Reilo searched the desert with their pets, finding a sea-beast carapace and an ancient Aurora mask while Alder stayed with Corleon.
• Several days later, the group found a ruined Magic Eye Pyramid and discovered that its Gulan Fairy inhabitants had apparently slaughtered one another.
• The group explored the pyramid, found enormous female sea-beast corpses, and reached the still-powered energy hub, where Reilo subdued its guardian.
• A living Gulan Fairy called the Moon Song Prayer warned that his mental power carried contamination from the Dark Mother.
• The Moon Song Prayer explained that the Gulan Fairies had summoned the Dark Mother, who later escaped and used her offspring and mental tether to drag the floating island into the atmosphere.

Reilo, Alder, and Audrey fought the Moon Song Prayer after learning the Gulan Fairies had planned to use the pyramid’s energy core to take revenge on humanity. The Prayer unleashed eternal moon ice flame, and Corleon spotted a possible weakness before tossing Alder a bag of salt.

• The Moon Song Prayer revealed that the Gulan Fairies had gathered energy to take revenge on humanity, then began succumbing to the Dark Mother’s corruption.
• The Prayer attacked Audrey, and Alder and Reilo defended themselves with an explosive gemstone and a rune-reinforced energy shield.
• Reilo’s Gulan sand flame clashed with the Prayer’s eternal moon ice flame, revealing its power to annihilate matter and turn what remained into sand.
• Audrey returned to keep the Prayer occupied while Reilo studied the strange energy and Corleon watched without exposing the guardians’ presence.
• Corleon identified a possible weakness and tossed Alder a bag of salt, telling him to sprinkle it on the Prayer’s skin.

Reilo helped defeat a powerful Gulan Fairy and traded for its azure eye, which he believed could reveal the moon’s essential power. Corleon then planned to use the energy hub to split the floating island, leaving Alder, Audrey, and Reilo to return while he worked.

• Corleon recognized that the Gulan Fairy’s strength came from a borrowed power coating its skin, and Reilo used salt to weaken it.
• Audrey struck the weakened creature with lightning and avoided its Eternal Moon Ice Flame, killing it.
• Reilo asked Corleon for the Gulan Fairy’s azure eye and offered two Raven’s Bites, but Corleon gave him the eye without taking the trade.
• Reilo took the eye, hoping to study the moon’s essential power, while Corleon examined the energy hub.
• Corleon told Alder, Audrey, and Reilo to return and announced that he would use the energy stored in the hub to split the floating island.

Grand Guardian A learned that Corleon planned a secret destructive attack on the Haiqi, whose civilization depended on female Haiqi breeding with vast numbers of males. As the full moon rose, the Guardians watched the males swarm around enormous female Haiqi controlling giant sea creatures, revealing the scale of the biological civilization they intended to attack.

• Alder told Grand Guardian A that Corleon had found a plan for destruction and would launch it on the next full moon, while Audrey said he had ordered them to keep the method secret.
• A scholar reported that female Haiqi depended on males to reproduce and strengthen their mental power, and would collapse if they lost that ability.
• On a night when the Haiqi were gathering, male Haiqi crawled in enormous numbers onto Gem Island and other nearby islands.
• The Guardians saw a gigantic red shrimp carrying a female Haiqi whose long mental threads controlled the creature.
• Hundreds of giant sea creatures emerged under female Haiqi control as male Haiqi swarmed over them and transferred their mental power.

Deep beneath Gem Island, the Flame Demon Roarer prepared to unleash the Continent Plate Oscillation Technique by amplifying his command of kinetic Law. He triggered a volcanic eruption and surged toward the surface, leaving the island on the brink of destruction.

• The Flame Demon Roarer reflected on the Xilan Duchy's study of Natural Law and the power scholars wielded through Law.
• He used a Vein Stone and his research to attune himself to the kinetic Law governing continental plates.
• The Flame Demon Roarer took his hundred-meter-tall Fire Giant true form and focused on a weak point in the plates.
• After sensing a shift in the mantle, he activated the Continent Plate Oscillation Technique.
• Magma erupted beneath Gem Island as the Flame Demon Roarer grew larger and rode the molten river toward the surface.

The Eclipse Queen confronted a magma colossus unleashed by a volcanic eruption, while the Dark Web forces began their assault on the island chain. Reilo, Alder, and Audrey were sent away from the main advance toward the battlefield’s edge.

• The Eclipse Queen watched the moon and reflected on the sea qi queens’ history before an eruption devastated the land around her.
• A magma giant emerged from the earth, and the Eclipse Queen charged it atop the giant red shrimp; the giant destroyed the shrimp with a fireball.
• A metal fortress rose from the seabed as Reilo, Audrey, Alder, and the Dark Web guardians witnessed the distant volcanic destruction.
• Great Guardian A ordered the Dark Web elites to advance and destroy the monsters, while the scholars transformed and flew toward the islands.
• M appeared on Reilo’s Thunder Phoenix and ordered Reilo, Alder, and Audrey to take a route away from the main force, so the three turned toward the battlefield’s edge.

Reilo, Alder, and Audrey encountered a Haiqi queen controlling a Dark Web warrior and joined his companion in a plan to defeat her while saving him. The Thunder Phoenix gained the upper hand against the warrior, and Reilo prepared to use Harmless Suggestion.

• Great Guardian X led Dark Web scholars in clearing lesser Haiqi from the battlefield.
• Reilo, Alder, and Audrey flew toward a remote area, where Alder described the brutal previous guardian war against the followers of evil gods.
• Reilo and his companions found a Haiqi queen controlling a Giant Crab and a Dark Web warrior who was attacking his companion.
• Reilo, Alder, Audrey, and the archer agreed to attack the queen while Reilo tried to save the controlled warrior.
• Reilo sent the Thunder Phoenix against the warrior, whose impaired fighting let the bird gain the advantage.
• Reilo summoned bubbles and considered using Harmless Suggestion.

Audrey, Alder, and the demon archer attacked the Sea Qi Queen and the deep-sea emperor crab, each using their strongest abilities despite the danger. The crab suffered mounting wounds, but the Sea Qi Queen remained active and continued fighting.

• Audrey attacked the deep-sea emperor crab, but its massive claw blocked her strike and nearly hit her in return.
• The crab caught Alder’s Rainbow Fish form and severed its tail, forcing him to abandon the damaged form.
• Alder used his Particle Thunderstorm Technique to burn through one of the crab’s claws and strike the Sea Qi Queen’s Mental Power shield.
• The demon archer hit the Sea Qi Queen with a Double-Arrow Bursting Arrow, but the queen sacrificed part of her Mental Power to strike down the archer’s Two-Horned Dragon Eagle.
• Audrey called for the group to kill the crab first, and she, Alder, and the archer continued attacking it as wounds spread across its body.

Reilo and his allies defeated the seaqi queen and killed her with Raven’s Bite after she failed to control Reilo and seized the Thunder Phoenix. As they prepared to leave, they witnessed Master Corleon’s floating island break apart, leaving the result of his plan uncertain.

• Reilo resisted the seaqi queen’s overwhelming mental attack, while she took control of the Thunder Phoenix after losing control of the Fighter in the bearskin coat.
• Reilo used the Insulation Confinement Technique to weaken the Thunder Phoenix as a medium, but the seaqi queen escaped the dying Giant Crab and fled skyward.
• Reilo struck the fleeing seaqi queen with Raven’s Bite, and its green flames burned her body to an empty shell.
• Reilo, Alder, and Audrey searched the seaqi queen and Giant Crab for materials, then rejoined the female magic archer and the unconscious Fighter in the bearskin coat.
• A rescue airship arrived, but Reilo, Alder, and Audrey noticed the floating island glowing blue and breaking into dozens of fragments.

Corleon destroyed the Sky Floating Island, sending its fragments toward the Haiqi civilization and threatening the foundations built by its Divine Mothers. As the Haiqi leaders sensed the approaching destruction, the chapter left the Black Moon Divine Mother wondering whether the danger came from beyond the Dark Current or from other continents.

• Corleon detonated the Eternal Moon Ice Flame inside the Magic Eye Pyramid, splitting the Sky Floating Island into dozens of fragments that began losing their energy.
• M watched the Grand Duchy's War Kings and metal giants slaughter Haiqi forces, while an aged alchemy scholar considered joining the Grand Duchy.
• The shattered island began descending as burning meteor fragments, and M suspected that Corleon was responsible.
• The Black Moon Divine Mother sensed malice threatening the Haiqi civilization and wondered whether it came from beyond the Dark Current or from other continents.